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About a 5% chance of seeing a tornado within a 25 mile radius. In addition to heavy downpours and lightning, strong damaging wind gusts may occur with some of the stronger storms. Friday will be reall...

He's just been down. The last two starts he's had as he's tried to come back [from injury], he hasn't commanded the ball as well. "I think once we get there it will be a different story for us". Wit...

Rudd said Britain's increased official threat level will remain at "critical" as the investigation proceeds and won't be lowered until security services are convinced there is no active plot in place....

In Minneapolis, 97 percent of residents live within a 10-minute walk or a half-mile, and 15 percent of the city is parkland. Arlington was ranked sixth in the nation this year and D.C. While the stu...

A man whose dyed hair and tattoos make him look like The Joker was arrested after he allegedly pointed a loaded gun at passing cars in Miami Tuesday night. Asked for a concealed weapons permit, Sull...

Key, who declared for the National Basketball Association draft in April without hiring an agent, had until Wednesday to decide whether to remain in the draft or return to school. A team that looked i...

The budget relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in a bid to balance the government's books over the next decade. But getting there would require a lot of red ink....

He was the former manager of the J.J. Newberry department store in Rockland. Fire officials say the exact cause can not be determined because of how extensive the damage is to the house. Seven area fi...

Supporters of Maine's new system, which was supposed to take effect for elections next year, argued that ranked-choice voting does not consist of multiple rounds, but factors in all rankings at once...

GOP Rep. Fred Upton of MI, a senior lawmaker, said border security is important, but questioned the need for $1.6 billion to be spent on Trump's border wall. Many rank-and-file Republicans recoiled f...

US President Donald Trump ended his 28-hour trip to Israel Tuesday afternoon extolling the prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace but leaving no clear indication of how he plans to help bring it clo...

While the investigation is ramping up to interviews and subpoenas, sources with knowledge of it say that doesn't mean criminal charges are a given. You might have thought it was a worse idea to exclud...

Authorities admit that's a rough estimate on the value, because the plants still need to be weighed. "One of our narcotics investigators came to the house looking for something else". Around 10 deputi...

Events

McCain told Mattis that it is not the job of Congress to provide a strategy, but that the committee will start getting more vocal in its criticism if a plan is not presented soon. But at some point we have to say 'look, Congress and the American people owe. President Donald Trump is considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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They said they were grateful their son would "finally be with people who love him". After nearly a year and a half in a North Korean prison, a University of Virginia student is coming home, though reportedly in a coma. The third is a businessman named Kim Dong Chul. The State Department did not comment beyond Tillerson's brief announcement. The U.S., which has no trade with the North, can only apply economic pressure on the regime through secondary sanctions that prevent target entities ...

On Thursday, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his firing, which occurred in May, the investigation into any potential ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign and the possibility Trump may have obstructed justice when he put pressure on Comey to drop the investigation into Gen.

I love how Senator Harris gets manterrupted by her colleagues for insisting that Sessions answer. Miller responds with, "It was a completely partisan screed", before Powers cuts him off by reposing her question, "How was that hysterical?" "It makes me nervous", the most senior public law enforcement officer in America said.